DRINK HIS HEALTH
FROM A WINSTON CHURCHILL
"TOBY"
A Toby jug of Mr Winston. Churchill's* resolute and cheerful face is a best feller in the United States ant? Canada. The makers have doubled
the value of china figures sent to North America since the war.
All told, Britain shipped, nearly* £2,000,000 worth more; pottery overseas last year than the year before, and was at the same time makingmuch more industrial pottery for* * home use, especially chemical stoneto take the of metals needed for the war.
Chemical stoneware fs now being* used for pipe lnus, valves, tanks, and storage vessels, It ©omparesi m strength with grey cast iron; it can be worked with a chisel; and it can even be ground to the most precise measurements.. Stoneware, moreover,, resists corrision except by hydrofluoric acid. Once Germany alone was making, laboratory porcelain. To-day, Britain is supplying herself with laboratory porcelain ancf also with porcelain filters for water ana acidi filtration and for laboratory research.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 145, 22 August 1941, Page 5
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162DRINK HIS HEALTH Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 145, 22 August 1941, Page 5
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